Life events
You left to look after someone else, and never set an end date.
Started as a fortnight. It has been four months, and your own house has been empty for all of it.
Typical duration
Weeks to many months, extending
Notice you get
Little to none
Contactable?
Yes, but stretched thin
Dominant risk
Drift into an unprepared season
Going to look after a parent, a sibling or an adult child is an absence that begins as a short trip and extends indefinitely. Nobody packs for four months. Nobody prepared the house for four months.
The carer is also under real strain and has the least available attention of almost any group on this list. Anything about their own property that requires thought is going to be deferred.
The absence often crosses seasons without anyone noticing. A March departure means the house was never winterised, and by November nobody has been back to do it.
What makes this different
Every situation on this site is empty for a reason. These are the things specific to this one.
Started short, became long
The classic drift absence. Preparation matched a fortnight and the reality is a season.
The owner has no spare attention
Caring is exhausting. An arrangement that requires the owner to manage it will not be managed.
Crosses seasonal boundaries unprepared
Nobody plans for winter in March, and by the time winter arrives the owner has been away for months.
What typically goes wrong
- An absence that quietly outgrew the preparation
- Entering winter with a house that was never winterised
- An owner with no capacity to make property decisions
- Mail, bills and deliveries accumulating unattended
Services
What this situation usually involves
In roughly the order people add them.
Vacant Home Checks
Scheduled physical visits to an unoccupied property, with a timestamped photo record and a written report after every visit.
Mail & Package Checks
Mail and parcels collected, brought inside and organised to your written instructions, with notification of anything that looks important.
Seasonal Property Care
Property care that changes with the Alberta seasons — freeze risk in winter, meltwater in spring, hail in summer, winterisation in fall.
Maintenance Coordination
When something needs fixing, the right trade is sourced, scheduled, given access and documented — with your authorisation at every step.
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